Gemini Man
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: October 11, 2019 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 49 Critic Reviews
Positive:
11
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21
Negative:
17
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IndieWireElla KempSep 26, 2019
Once Lee establishes what he can do with technology in Gemini Man – and it’s a lot – it becomes difficult to refocus emotion onto anything more human. By multiplying life, Gemini Man too often merely dilutes it. Read full review
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New York Magazine (Vulture)Alison WillmoreOct 11, 2019
At its core is a scenario in which someone’s given the chance to confront their younger self and call out their worst choices — one that feels like it has more to do with therapy than with all the unconvincing action in which it’s unfortunately packaged. Read full review
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USA TodayBrian TruittOct 10, 2019
The movie shoots for the moon with an intriguing dual-role conceit but wildly misses the mark. Hackneyed dialogue, a thin and silly plot fumbling the ambition of the concept, and a mixed bag of visual effects all leave this one just for the Smith completists. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comOdie HendersonOct 10, 2019
Gemini Man never pretends to be anything but a time-wasting contraption hoping to entertain its viewer. I can’t reasonably be mad at its honesty, and despite the horrendous dialogue its actors are often forced to speak, I found myself enjoying a fair amount of it. Read full review
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New York PostReed TuckerOct 10, 2019
If you don’t think “All About Eve” was a documentary, you’ve never dated an actor. That classic show-business paranoia is the subtext that drives Gemini Man, an action flick with a twist. Read full review
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Austin ChronicleMatthew MonagleOct 9, 2019
Gemini Man features strong chemistry between its leads and an undercurrent of regret that makes it surprisingly empathetic for an action movie. Do away with the digital de-aging, and this might’ve emerged as one of the more enjoyable action movies of 2019. Then again, for some, it probably already is. Read full review
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Boston GlobeTy BurrOct 9, 2019
It’s a not-unwatchable retread that has been tricked up to pass as a whole new thing. The problem with high-frame-rate productions is that they don’t look like what we’re used to calling “movies.” The problem with this one is that there wasn’t much movie there to begin with. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerGary ThompsonOct 9, 2019
if I want to know what Will Smith looked like in his 20s, I can always return, happily, to Men in Black. Read full review
50
The VergeCharles BramescoOct 8, 2019
Lee sometimes gives the impression of a virtuoso guitarist, needlessly gussying up his act with double-necked axes and pyrotechnics. When a filmmaker has skills like Lee’s, all the bells and whistles just seem to get in the way. God willing, his acoustic days aren’t totally behind him. Read full review
50
Paste MagazineTim GriersonOct 8, 2019
Unfortunately, Gemini Man is saddled with a fatally weak story, almost as if Lee chose a predictable action-thriller narrative so that he could focus his energy on the effects and frame rate. But the result is a quirky-looking movie that’s generally boring. Read full review
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Screen DailyFionnuala HalliganSep 26, 2019
Seen at 60 frames per second (fps) on 3D-Plus (2K resolution), Ang Lee’s action spectacular Gemini Man proved a compulsive watch: not for the usual ingredients of can’t-look-away Hollywood cinema such as acting – Will Smith takes a dual role - or plot, both of which fell a little flat, and seemed almost wilfully generic. As a viewing experience, though, this picture delivers as a prototype of future action film-making. Read full review
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Original-CinLiam LaceyOct 16, 2019
As the movie flips through familiar Bourne/Bond tropes, the dialogue by David Benioff, Billy Ray, and Darren Lemke, feels clichéd to the point of parody, with lines like “It’s like The Hindenburg crashed into The Titanic!” Or, “I think I know why he’s as good as you. He is you!” Only, let’s be honest, not as good. Read full review
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The PlaylistRodrigo PerezOct 9, 2019
Packing a promising first act that quickly goes south and and a select few fun action beats, Ang Lee may be a disciple of technology, but if he’s going to trade the potential of meta-commentary on aging, youth, an actor’s legacy and more, for something meant to be slick entertainment, he’s still going to need a more convincing sermon. Read full review
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Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattOct 8, 2019
Somehow though, the film registers as a strange, airless whiff — stale, inert, and oddly melancholy. The script rarely rises above the schematics of a thousand thrillers that languish on late-night cable, and the almost willfully cliché dialogue sounds as if it’s been generated by some kind of free-with-purchase screenwriting app. Read full review
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Time OutDan JolinOct 10, 2019
To be fair, pulling off complex action sequences in such unforgivingly high definition is a ballsy move—it’s much harder to hide the joins between what was captured in camera and what was added later. But as impressive as the action is—and a Smith-vs.-Smith motorcycle chase in Colombia is a superb sequence worthy of peak Bond—the high-definition format just doesn’t work. Read full review
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Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangOct 10, 2019
No matter how many (presumably non-computer-generated) tears Smith sheds, he and Lee never transform this baby hit man into a plausible science-fiction conceit, let alone invest him with a soul. Read full review
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The TelegraphEd PowerOct 9, 2019
Those wonky de-aging effects and distracting frame-rate serve as trip-wires too. But what ultimately hobbles Gemini Man, more than all of that, is its refusal to buy into its own ludicrousness. It’s a slab of silliness that commits a terrible error: it takes itself seriously. Read full review
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CNNBrian LowryOct 9, 2019
A movie that emphasizes its experiential and 3D qualities but lacks depth on every other front. Read full review
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EmpireBen TravisOct 7, 2019
It gives you two Will Smiths for the price of one, but you still might feel ripped off by its clunky dialogue, thin characters and underwhelming action. Encourage your younger clone to avoid it. Read full review
40
The GuardianPeter BradshawOct 4, 2019
The digital novelty is striking for the first 10 minutes, silly for the next 10 minutes, and by the end of the movie you’re pining for the analogue values of script and direction. Read full review
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Total FilmJamie GrahamOct 4, 2019
Come for the technical innovations, stay for… hmm. Two Will Smiths for the price of one just ain’t worth it. Read full review
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